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Poise :: Poise (v.) The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed..

Poise :: Poise (n.) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.

Underpoise :: Underpoise (v. t.) To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue..

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (n.) A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight..

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (v. t.) To act against with equal power; to balance.

Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Counterpoise.

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (v. t.) To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (n.) An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.

Spiracle :: Spiracle (n.) The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals..

Sea Hog :: Sea hog () The porpoise.

Equipendency :: Equipendency (n.) The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way.

Poise :: Poise (v.) Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.

Unbalanced :: Unbalanced (a.) Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise..

Porpoise :: Porpoise (n.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer..

Delphinoidea :: Delphinoidea (n. pl.) The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms..

Nuzzle :: Nuzzle (v. i.) To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down..

Payse :: Payse (v. t.) To poise.

Rocking-stone :: Rocking-stone (n.) A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force..

Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces..

Equilibrious :: Equilibrious (a.) Evenly poised; balanced.

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